AVSub vs JellyBox Player
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AVSub
Stream your entire music and video library from your SubSonic server anywhere. Enjoy offline playback, multi-format support, and seamless integration with CarPlay and Apple Watch.
- Multi-language music & video streaming
- Offline listening & viewing
- Multi-format audio support (FLAC, ALAC)
- Playlist support
- CarPlay & Apple Watch integration
- Bluetooth Audio support
- Enhanced media information
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AVSub is a fully featured, multi-language music and video streaming (after in-app purchase) app for SubSonic. With multi-format (including FLAC) support, quick & easy browsing, caching for offline listening or viewing, playlist support and a great user interface, accessing your media is fast and simple. With full Bluetooth Audio, Apple Watch, CarPlay, Chromecast & Airplay support too, you can have your media with you anywhere, anytime. Connect AVSub to your licensed SubSonic server and you'll have access to your entire media collection. AVSub supports any audio format that SubSonic supports and SSL. AVSub's user interface is familiar and easy to use. Optimized views for both portrait & landscape orientations make the most of your device. AVSub has full Bluetooth Audio support - stream to any Bluetooth device (car stereo, amplifier, speaker, headphones) with superb quality. Bluetooth remote-control is fully supported. AVSub also fully suports CarPlay. The AVSub Apple Watch extension is the easiest way to get your Subsonic playlists and cached albums onto your watch. The extension supports full background playback. You can take your music with you even without your phone! AVSub supports offline caching so you can listen to your music or watch video even when you're not connected to the Internet. AVSub will intelligently cache what you listen to in the background, or you can choose to download tracks, albums or videos direct to the cache for quick pre-loading. Cache size is configurable, along with options such as cache reading & writing and the ability to control direct-downloading over a mobile/cellular network. AVSub supports Subsonic playlists and will intelligently cache tracks on your device. AVSub can be used on both WiFi or a mobile/cellular connection (3G/4G/5G). Audio caching ensure smoother playback. AVSub shows enhanced information for your media, recognising movies, TV, artists and giving bio information, top tracks and similar artists. With AVSub you can access your full media library by browsing, selecting from the most recently added, most recently played, most frequently played or highest rated tracks, or search over your entire library. AVSub also supports multiple SubSonic top-level music folders, allowing you to select an individual top-level folder, or your entire collection. You can browse by folder structure or ID3 tags. AVSub Features: - Universal app for iPhone & iPad - MP3/AAC/FLAC/MP4/ALAC/Vorbis/Opus/WAV/DSD - High-resolution digital audio output via CCK up to 24bit/192kHz - CarPlay - TMDb integration for full movie & TV posters and details - VLC integration - 10 band Equaliser - Mini player - AVCast support - Google Cast audio and video (after in-app purchase) - Supports all modern video codecs - Portrait and landscape - Video streaming with caching (in-app purchase) - Subsonic Jukebox (in-app purchase) - Home screen & Notification center widget with recent items - 3D Touch quick action shortcuts - Internet radio - Crossfade - SSL support, including self-signed certificates - Caching for all media - Folder & ID3 mode - Multi-disc album support - Artist Radio/Similar Songs - Intelligent Bookmarks - Podcasts - Gapless playback - Track seeking - Subsonic playlist support - Streams over 3G/4G/5G/WiFi - Maximum streaming bitrate control - Bluetooth Audio/Airplay support - Remembers your playlist from the last session - Streams from any licensed SubSonic server (v4.0 and up) - Browse/search music collection - Browse most recently added, recently played, frequently played, highest rated - Random albums/songs - Shuffle and repeat - Album cover art - Lock-screen integration - Documentation & guides available at the AVSub website
JellyBox Player
Access and play your local music library from Jellyfin, Emby, or Navidrome servers. Enjoy features like time-synced lyrics, offline playback, and remote control of your media.
- Browse local music library
- Remote device control
- Time-synced lyrics
- Full offline mode
- Downloads
- Apple CarPlay support
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JellyBox Player is a client application for Jellyfin, Emby or Navidrome servers. JellyBox allows you seamlessly play all your local music by simply connecting to your home server. This player can: * Browse and your local lib - artists, albums, songs, playlists * Continuity - remotely control your devices or move playback between them * Relay - connect remotely to your home server without use of VPN or tailscale tunnels * Home page widget * Show a time synced lyrics(when available) * Full offline mode, including a "plane" support * Downloads * Native Apple CarPlay app
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: JellyBox Player at Free against AVSub's $3.99. JellyBox Player also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 5). AVSub's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 44%) and ratings volume (64 vs 7). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
JellyBox Player is free to download; AVSub costs $3.99 up front. AVSub sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. JellyBox Player asks for nothing beyond the download.
JellyBox Player holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: AVSub has 64 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of AVSub's written reviews are positive against 44% of JellyBox Player's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AVSub ships an update every 3 weeks, JellyBox Player every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AVSub | JellyBox Player |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (64 ratings) | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.2% of reviews — better | 43.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 159 MB | 49 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Levy | Oleksandr Synelnykov |
Customer experience
AVSub
JellyBox Player
In-app purchases
AVSub
- Jukebox mode$0.99
- Video Playback$1.99
- Chromecast Video/Audio$2.99
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- Fire TV support$2.99
- Google Cast and Fire TV Support$4.99
JellyBox Player
No in-app purchases









